Multi-award-winning New Orleans singer/songwriter and children’s musician Johnette Downing, staying true to her Louisiana roots, joins forces with Jimmy LaRocca and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band on "Dixieland Jazz for Children." The recording gives Johnette the opportunity to share with children all over the world music that provided the soundscape for her own childhood. "Johnette Downing brings the spicy flavors of her home state to all her recordings," Elizabeth Waldman Frazier of Waldmania PR told TDmonthly. "It was Johnette’s idea to update Dixieland jazz, fusing it with her own lyrics and new melodies." Launch date: May 6, 2008.

From the bayou to the ocean, kids will have a whale of a good time with this CD from multi-award winning children’s musician Johnette Downing. The album is dedicated to the marine animals at New Orleans’ Aquarium of the Americas who perished in Hurricane Katrina, and their caretakers. It’s an “example of how music can be used to present lessons on zoology and ecology in a memorable, engaging way…packaged in songs that are musically satisfying enough to hold up magnificently under repeated adult listening,” Elizabeth Waldman Frazier of Waldmania! told TDmonthly. A minimum order of five is required. Launch date: February 13, 2007.

Noted New Orleans jazz musician and children’s songwriter Johnette Downing returns with her latest album, “Music Time.” The 14 tracks are mostly a collection of songs originally recorded in 1992, but Downing has remastered and re-recorded them, plus added three bonus tracks of brand new material.